- HD 1080
- Runtime: 94m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Robert Moore
- Stars: Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith
- keywords: detective, butler, deaf-mute, guest, parody, murder, spoof, mansion, whodunit, cadaver, one night, sidekick, old mansion
- Production_studio: Rastar Productions
- Slogan: By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
- The Murder by Death is featured in the top rankings of 1976
- #9 in Top Comedy Movies of 1976
- #5 in Top Crime Movies of 1976
- #10 in Top Thriller Movies of 1976
- #6 in Top Mystery Movies of 1976
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.